| spatial behaviour | Reactions of an individual or groups of individuals with relation to the immediate surrounding area including the animate or inanimate objects within that area. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| spatial filter | <radiobiology> Device consisting of a lens pair and a pinhole aperture stop. Intensity fluctuations over the spatial extent of a laser beam are removed by passing the focused beam through the aperture stop. The pinhole must be placed in a vacuum to prevent air breakdown by the focused beam. These filters are used to counter the effects caused by self-focusing. (09 Oct 1997) |
| spatial formula | A chemical formula in which the arrangement of the atoms or atomic groupings in space are indicated. Synonym: spatial formula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatial localization | The reference of a visual sensation to a definite locality in space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatial sensing | Mechanism of sensing a gradient in which the signal is compared at different points on the cell surface and cell movement directed accordingly. Translocation of all or part of the cell is not required. See: temporal gradient sensing, pseudospatial gradient sensing. (18 Nov 1997) |
| spatial vector | A cardiac vector represented in more than one plane simultaneously; two-or three-dimensional orientation of a vector. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatial vectorcardiography | Three-dimensional vectorcardiography in which vector loops are inscribed in frontal, sagittal, and horizontal planes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatium | Synonym: space. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatium episclerale | The space between the fascial sheath of the eyeball and the sclera. Synonym: spatium episclerale, interfascial space, spatium interfasciale, spatium intervaginale bulbi oculi, Tenon's space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatium intercostale | An interval between the ribs, occupied by intercostal muscles, veins, arteries and nerves. Synonym: spatium intercostale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatium interfasciale | The space between the fascial sheath of the eyeball and the sclera. Synonym: spatium episclerale, interfascial space, spatium interfasciale, spatium intervaginale bulbi oculi, Tenon's space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatium interglobulare | One of a number of irregularly branched spaces near the periphery of the dentin of the crown of a tooth, through which pass the ramifications of the tubules; they are caused by failure of calcification of the dentin. Synonym: spatium interglobulare, interglobular space of Owen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatium intervaginale bulbi oculi | The space between the fascial sheath of the eyeball and the sclera. Synonym: spatium episclerale, interfascial space, spatium interfasciale, spatium intervaginale bulbi oculi, Tenon's space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatium lateropharyngeum | That part of the peripharyngeum spatium located at the sides of the pharynx. Synonym: spatium lateropharyngeum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatium perichoroideale | The interval between the choroid and the sclera filled by the loose meshes of the lamina fusca of sclera and the suprachoroid lamina. Synonym: spatium perichoroideale, perichoroid space. (05 Mar 2000) |